Why are DC privates the most conservative when in comes to COVID precautions?

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Anonymous wrote:Why are DC privates seemingly the only private schools in the country that are doing full DL? I have friends with kids in privates in Chicago, Seattle, CT, Florida and even Manhattan (FFS) who are back at school between two and five days a week. Our COVID rates are just as low or lower than most of those places. And we have space to have the kids outside (versus some of the NYC schools.). Every day that goes by, we get closer to winter/cold weather/flu season, and I get more frustrated. What will it take for DC privates to have kids on campus in any capacity?

Perhaps because DC has the 2nd highest percentage of commuters of any city in the Nation except Manhattan and DC Privates draw there faculty and staff as well as students from, not just DC, but from MD and NOVA- both of which have an RO above 1.

Maybe because the Federal Gov't is being prioritized so that it can keep dysfuntioning ? Just a couple reasaons

Why should DC residents be "punished" for the rates of VA and MD? Honestly it is all just hurting DC as a city because we for example just shop in VA and MD- therefore not contributing funds to our own city but if that is what the Mayor wants to do- very quickly bankrupt the city and close most businesses- so be it.

Are you suggesting that DC private schools open but ban the student from MD and VA?

No at all, I think all kids should be in school. I don't think the case numbers in Va/Md should affect DC opening plans though- and it seems it does. VA and MD don't look at DC numbers- which are much lower- in making their own plans. The PP said one of the reasons for keeping schools closed was because of the commuters- the commuters should not factor into DC opening plans at all- no matter where they come from. NY hasn't looked at commuters from NJ/CT- same should be for DC. The Mayor wants to include larger data points when it suits her desire to keep things closed- for whatever twisted reasoning but then not include those same points when it fits her agenda. You can't have it both ways.

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MoCo has super low numbers. Why is someone trying to pass off state numbers, and not list them all anyhow.

So silly.

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Anonymous wrote:There are too many lawyers in the DMV area. The culture is determined by a bunch of litigious, anxious, insecure assholes. That’s why we can’t have nice things here.

Beauvoir is so lucky to not have this so have continued to offer a choice of in person and DL.

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Anonymous wrote:DC private school parent here and I'm very disappointed that our school chose full distance learning instead of a hybrid model to start the year. I'm shocked at how DMV privates are handling this compared to schools in other parts of the country and the Catholic schools.

What irks me even more is all these schools know how to use their outdoor space and pitch canopies when they're holding donor events!

+1000

we have a pretty big perspective on this and are shocked how down the leftist rabbit hole this city is on phases and reopening given its low, manageable metrics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are too many lawyers in the DMV area. The culture is determined by a bunch of litigious, anxious, insecure assholes. That’s why we can’t have nice things here.

Beauvoir is so lucky to not have this so have continued to offer a choice of in person and DL.

Lol

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Anonymous wrote:It’s more left leaning politics than lawyers and I say this as someone who leans left. When Trump came out for opening schools, going in person became coded as a Trumpist thing. So left leaning people who are more disposed to risk aversion in terms of coronial generally have a hard time allowing schools to open. There is this belief that closing the schools is based on sound science. But the actual science behind that it’s nearly so strong as many people believe. And it is hard to dissuade people from extreme corona risk aversion because it happens to align with the position that idiot trumpers stumbled into.

Study after study has shown that schools are in general not places of large infection rates. Sure, there are some cases linked to schools in general, but most students and faculty/staff who have tested positive, it has been traced back to community spread, not school.This coming from someone who also leans left but seems ironic the party that calls out conservatives for not believing in science and for being uneducated are themselves not believing in science and are hell bent on keeping kids uneducated. Maybe their particular kids have the luxury of tutors, sahp, etc but the vast majority of children do not.

Right. But, as we all know, leftist/ liberals don’t care about studies and science if they conflict with their political narrative

So true.

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Anonymous wrote:There are too many lawyers in the DMV area. The culture is determined by a bunch of litigious, anxious, insecure assholes. That’s why we can’t have nice things here.

Actually there is a lot of focus on kids here- kid safety- when the real drivers here both in terms of spreaders of infection and those at risk for serious illness/ death are the adult employees ( teachers, staff , house keepers, lunch crew, janitors, etc...)

Schools could re-open safely but they are shooting themselves in the foot by putting their Facilities Director in change- a person who is most concerned about profit/ cost and has no medical credientials to inform planning. Add to that corporate greed based HR that, pre- pandemic was looking to cut faculty benefits anyway while paying self and HOS more AND facilities director MORE and you now have perfect storm of:

illegal employment practices such as failing to inform teachers of all 5 of the DC Mayor's listed medical leave pre-existing qualifying conditions

conflict of interest riddled Admin teams and Boards who are killing the trust of their teachers and parents

no independent medical oversight = dysfunction and inability to serve their students

All of you stoking the same DC vs. MD vs. VA....read the newspaper.

Unless your private has students communing from Danville or Mecklenburg County, our metrics in the entire metro area are are below community spread levels. You are blowing smoke because you personally benefit from DL and are stringing along increasingly desperate weak arguments to keep it going. Old news and it won’t last much longer.

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This area is so infected with politics, not in a Dem vs Repub way, but rather how things are perceived by the public. These heads of school, with their lawyers and families that work in gov, law and the press, seem to constantly be thinking about how things play out in a publicity arena. I wish they had the creativity and strength to make decisions based on objective data and transparency. I don't even know which is the right answer, DL, hybrid or in person. But most of the school leaders in this region have been unimpressive.

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Anonymous wrote:This area is so infected with politics, not in a Dem vs Repub way, but rather how things are perceived by the public. These heads of school, with their lawyers and families that work in gov, law and the press, seem to constantly be thinking about how things play out in a publicity arena. I wish they had the creativity and strength to make decisions based on objective data and transparency. I don't even know which is the right answer, DL, hybrid or in person. But most of the school leaders in this region have been unimpressive.

Don’t forget the community organizers and campaign volunteers.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't blame it on all the lawyers. NY has lawyer board members and parents too. It is one lawyer at one school and he is married to a teacher. Plenty of us do not want to sue our kid's school. We are not all idiots.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are too many lawyers in the DMV area. The culture is determined by a bunch of litigious, anxious, insecure assholes. That’s why we can’t have nice things here.

Actually there is a lot of focus on kids here- kid safety- when the real drivers here both in terms of spreaders of infection and those at risk for serious illness/ death are the adult employees ( teachers, staff , house keepers, lunch crew, janitors, etc...)

Schools could re-open safely but they are shooting themselves in the foot by putting their Facilities Director in change- a person who is most concerned about profit/ cost and has no medical credientials to inform planning. Add to that corporate greed based HR that, pre- pandemic was looking to cut faculty benefits anyway while paying self and HOS more AND facilities director MORE and you now have perfect storm of:

illegal employment practices such as failing to inform teachers of all 5 of the DC Mayor's listed medical leave pre-existing qualifying conditions

conflict of interest riddled Admin teams and Boards who are killing the trust of their teachers and parents

no independent medical oversight = dysfunction and inability to serve their students

All of you stoking the same DC vs. MD vs. VA....read the newspaper.

Unless your private has students communing from Danville or Mecklenburg County, our metrics in the entire metro area are are below community spread levels. You are blowing smoke because you personally benefit from DL and are stringing along increasingly desperate weak arguments to keep it going. Old news and it won’t last much longer.

Uh, no they're not. ??. I'm not advocated for full DL (our school is open on a hybrid model and doing well), but where are you getting your statistics? Community spread is defined as 1-9 cases per 100,000 people on rolling 7 day average. No county in the DMV is anywhere near that.
https://globalepidemics.org/key-metrics-for-covid-suppression/

[Anonymous]

Bottom line- if you have kids at a DC private, please start asking questions about reopen/ hybrid plans. We’ve all been accepting this “school is working so hard- school is so thoughtful” tripe for too long. You’re a paying customer. If your kids are struggling with DL, or simply desperately miss there friends and need some human contact instead of 7 hours a day of screens, TELL THEM. Stop pretending all is so wonderful when we know that it is not. I don’t want this to be a totally lost year.

We, the parents, must start speaking up

[Anonymous]

This is so entertaining. I hope your schools stay in DL all year.

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Anonymous wrote:This is so entertaining. I hope your schools stay in DL all year.

Wow. You're such a kind person.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is so entertaining. I hope your schools stay in DL all year.

Wow. You're such a kind person.

Read the last six pages. Your team isn’t exactly deserving of sympathy. You’re so upset you aren’t getting what you want that you’ve lost all perspective and can’t imagine that other people have good intentions and just disagree with you.

I also hope that if your school goes to hybrid learning that all of you are put in a cohort together and only allowed in a campus once a month.